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32/F I want everyone to have somewhere they feel they belong. Infatuation is a slippery slope and I have never been someone with traction.
The engine roars as the cold air whips my hair, Passion is driving full throttle while I ride shot gun. We fly through the night, speeding towards our destination, You. Population 1, soon to be 2. I become a polyglot in your presence, my body speaks fluently, a langue I’ve never heard uttered aloud. Words I did not know, tumble out of my mouth. A single stroke through my scalp is more than enough to cast a spell over me. Your hands all over me conduct an orchestra a soft murmurs and whimpers, a song that never ceases. I am soft clay, begging to be thrown on the wheel. Spin me, shape me, fire me, break me
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Jun 9, 2025
Jun 9, 2025 at 1:23 AM UTC
a trip to the kiln
You bring tornadoes through me. Furious infatuation fills my torso. Thunder cracks between my thighs, the lightening is warm and shuddering. My hunger for you is never ending, rolling over hills like clouds about to burst. I do not need to wait for rain. I am drenched in anticipation, I am trembling like the fault line. There are no lines between us, only a small distance buzzing with electricity. Our tides are ripping, Our currents, pulling and luring. You are the waves rising to my knees, the breeze teasing my shoulders. You are the calm, You are the storm.
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Dec 13, 2015
Dec 13, 2015 at 6:34 PM UTC
We are Trees during a Storm
I never dreamed of sitting in the meadows that blossom in your chest. I only allowed myself a small window to hope, to wish, to crave. I know now that it was big enough to climb through. We were meant to align, to feel the pull of each other, to recognize the thirst. We are lock and key. We are the lonesome trees, greeting lighting. We are the sound of jars taking their first breath after so long. We. It tastes so soft when I say it, falling out of my mouth like honey vanilla.
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Mar 12, 2013
Mar 12, 2013 at 2:28 AM UTC
lock and key.
My heart is a deck with vein blue grip tape and you are the wheels. The trucks get looser and looser and before I know it I am swerving across the white line, dipping into love like it’s a bike lane. I cannot steer with you holding my hands. The sun is a retired drum set beating on my shoulders, your hands land on my hips with the sound of cymbals murmuring. Our melody is silent banging, the sweat and the blood pressure, the only remnants of the music.
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Jan 29, 2013
Jan 29, 2013 at 10:37 AM UTC
oh.
the soil in my soles is wet this time of year the cracks filled with summer sun are mending the seeds of recovery have been carefully placed between my veins with every heart beat I can feel the green starting to make way to the surface it will be a long autumn blooming with sobriety nursing the chrysanthemums adorning my lucidity
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Nov 28, 2012
Nov 28, 2012 at 4:53 AM UTC
chrysanthemum
I heard someone utter the words, "Sober is just another word for thirsty." And I did not believe her. Until my throat started itching, the moment I stopped the stitching of molecules that altered me, turned me around, I had been treading backwards. My body ached with vacancy, my hands trembled with an appetite that played the part of of my hands on the wheel. It is an agonizing contradiction, to be weighed down by nothing, every drop that plunged into my mouth, every plume that escaped the narrow path to my lungs was a nail in my soles, keeping me firm to the ground, I became stagnant, only dipping under the influence to ask for what I thought was needed assistance. My temporarily stainless bloodstream bred venomous ideas while the darkest parts of me quivered with insatiable hunger, and made a show of it with my fluttering fingertips. I had dreamt on nearly every day of the week with my eyes open, of clawing my out of this canyon of flesh I had been trapped inside of, the echoes of an empty heart were enough to keep me awake for days, witnessing a continuum, of sunset, sunrise, sunset, sunrise, yet the sky never brightened. The darkness was addictive, I became a ****** for the murky, and I have been buried. Underneath habits that stifle me. Smoke that leaves my lungs no room for new air. There is an invisible layer of soot caked onto my skin falling from my nights spent drunk and unaware of which direction I was growing. My odometer slowly screams for me to stop, to reverse, begin again. My shower head works hard. It tries to bathe me in rebirth. The shampoo bottle whispers with its shape, asks me to sing again. Why did I stop singing? Because I no longer enjoyed the sound of my voice. I stopped believing in it. Drenched in half truths and uncut delusions, my tongue was poison. I had denied the beautiful methods of me. And employed the ugly. I gave a managerial promotions to the mean the spitting mad and the angry slices of my heart. But I will dig through these concrete slabs of toxic routines. And I will take back my beauty and revive my love. And become who I am, climbing out of who I have been.
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Nov 15, 2012
Nov 15, 2012 at 3:14 PM UTC
recovery.
I heard someone utter the words, "Sober is just another word for thirsty." And I did not believe her. Until my throat started itching, the moment I stopped the stitching of molecules that altered me, turned me around, I had been treading backwards. My body ached with vacancy, my hands trembled with an appetite that played the part of of my hands on the wheel. It is an agonizing contradiction, to be weighed down by nothing, every drop that plunged into my mouth, every plume that escaped the narrow path to my lungs was a nail in my soles, keeping me firm to the ground, I became stagnant, only dipping under the influence to ask for what I thought was needed assistance. My temporarily stainless bloodstream bred venomous ideas while the darkest parts of me quivered with insatiable hunger, and made a show of it with my fluttering fingertips. I had dreamt on nearly every day of the week with my eyes open, of clawing my out of this canyon of flesh I had been trapped inside of, the echoes of an empty heart were enough to keep me awake for days, witnessing a continuum, of sunset, sunrise, sunset, sunrise, yet the sky never brightened. The darkness was addictive, I became a ****** for the murky, and I have been buried. Underneath habits that stifle me. Smoke that leaves my lungs no room for new air. There is an invisible layer of soot caked onto my skin falling from my nights spent drunk and unaware of which direction I was growing. My odometer slowly screams for me to stop, to reverse, begin again. My shower head works hard. It tries to bathe me in rebirth. The shampoo bottle whispers with its shape, asks me to sing again. Why did I stop singing? Because I no longer enjoyed the sound of my voice. I stopped believing in it. Drenched in half truths and uncut delusions, my tongue was poison. I had denied the beautiful methods of me. And employed the ugly. I gave a managerial promotions to the mean the spitting mad and the angry slices of my heart. But I will dig through these concrete slabs of toxic routines. And I will take back my beauty and revive my love. And become who I am, climbing out of who I have been.
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How do you get those boots on? I’ve never seen any straps or laces or snaps or velcro. When did you know you could fly? Did you fall out of a tree when you were five and missed the ground? How does Gravity feel about this? Does that spandex itch? Do you wear underwear under the spandex under your underwear? Do those cuffs rub against your forearms? How does it feel to a lift a car? Like a tin can? Like a paper bag? Like a bucket of feathers? What it is like to look eighty stories down and know that you are safe, that you can always save yourself? Do you have a sixth or seventh sense? Does it ever wake you in the night? Do you experience the blistering heat and the chilling cold? Do you feel it in your bones like I do? Do you want to destroy your living room when someone has lied to you like I do? Have you ever destroyed your living room when someone has lied to you? Does your cape get stuck in the elevator doors? Do you ever take the elevator? Do you ever take the remote into the kitchen during a commercial break? Can you stay on the couch and reach all the way to the counter? Do you wear a mask? Does it leave those red marks like my glasses do on my nose? Do you want **** people who are dangerous and rotten in some places on the inside with one hand? Does evil reside in you as well?
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Apr 12, 2012
Apr 12, 2012 at 3:23 PM UTC
12. (things I have wondered about superheroes)
My heart begins to quiver, and makes a show of my trembling hands.
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Apr 9, 2012
Apr 9, 2012 at 1:19 AM UTC
8.
I never walk through a crowd without scanning for the back of your head. Those beautiful black strands dancing just above your shoulders  lure me to those blades  that you sharpen during the day and you pull out at night.  They threaten but their beckoning is stronger.  When I squint hard enough, I can see the magnets in your hands.  Your fingers brushed mine enough to configure my blood to run in your direction.  Like the river you are everywhere. Every branch sways with your rhythm.  You have a beautiful act. And you never revealed all of your secrets. I am here  and you are here but we have disappeared.
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Apr 8, 2012
Apr 8, 2012 at 2:05 AM UTC
7.